Bungsberg
| Bungsberg | ||
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 Bungsberg from the northwest, taken from the Hessenstein |
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| height | 167.4 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Schönwalde am Bungsberg ; Ostholstein District , Schleswig-Holstein ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Holstein Switzerland | |
| Dominance | 127 km → Wilseder Berg | |
| Coordinates | 54 ° 12 '39 " N , 10 ° 43' 26" E | |
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| Type | glacial terminal moraine | |
| Age of the rock | Saale ice age | |
| particularities | - Highest elevation in Schleswig-Holstein - Elisabeth Tower ( AT ) - Bungsberg transmitter - Bungsberg telecommunications tower |
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The Bungsberg is 167.4 m above sea level. NHN the highest elevation in Schleswig-Holstein . It is located in Holstein Switzerland in the area of the municipality of Schönwalde am Bungsberg in the Ostholstein district ; the municipality of Kasseedorf and the municipality of Kirchnüchel in the Plön district are located near the elevation in the same district .
The height of the elevation is 168 m on a signpost . On it are the Elisabeth Tower , the Bungsberg transmitter and the Bungsberg telecommunications tower with viewing platform. The Schwentine, one of the longest rivers in Schleswig-Holstein, has its source near the Bungsberg .
geography
location
The Bungsberg rises in Holstein Switzerland in the northeast of the Holstein Switzerland Nature Park . Its summit is 1.9 km northwest of the Scheelholz district and 1.2 km southwest of the Mönchneversdorf district , two Schönwalder districts, 2.1 km northeast of Bergfeld , a Kasseedorfer district, and 1.5 km east-southeast of Kirchmühl , a Kirchnücheler estate. The Malenter Au rises 1.7 km north of the summit , 2.2 km east-northeast the Steinbek , 0.7 km south-south-east the Lachsbach and 1.7 km southwest the Schwentine .
Natural allocation
The Bungsberg belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Schleswig-Holsteinisches Hügelland (No. 70), in the main unit Ostholsteinisches Hügel- und Seenland (702) and in the subunit Bungsberg area (702.4) to the natural area Bungsberg massif (702.42). It is located a little west-southwest of its center.
Emergence
The Bungsberg is a terminal moraine that was formed around 150,000 years ago in the Saale Ice Age . In the Vistula Ice Age - around 10,000 years ago - the glaciers could not overcome the mountain due to its height, so they flowed around it and thus formed a nunatak .
Towers
Elisabeth Tower
The Elisabeth Tower was built on the Bungsberg in 1863/1864 as a lookout tower. Since it was raised by four meters in 1875, it is 22 meters high. The tower stands about 180 m south-southeast of the summit. After a lengthy renovation phase, it has been accessible again since summer 2017.
Bungsberg telecommunications tower
About 170 m south of the summit and 45 m west of the Elisabeth Tower is the 179 m high Bungsberg telecommunications tower , which was built from 1975 to 1977. With good visibility conditions, large parts of Schleswig-Holstein as well as parts of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and the Baltic Sea can be seen from the tower's 40 m high viewing platform, which is accessible free of charge .
Transmission mast
Bungsberg transmitter
The Bungsberg transmitter, which has been in operation since 1960, is located about 730 m north-north-west of the summit . It is used to transmit radio programs from North German Radio . The steel lattice mast erected in 2004 is 249 m high, making it the highest transmission mast in Schleswig-Holstein . The second transmission mast, which existed from 1960 to 2006, was 231 m high.
Front left is the mountain station of the tow lift, in the middle behind the mast of the Bungsberg transmitter
freetime and sports
A common branch of the European long-distance hiking trails E1 and E6 leads over the Bungsberg . The elevation is a popular vantage point, especially because of the Elisabeth Tower observation tower and the observation platform of the Bungsberg telecommunications tower, from which one can see the Baltic Sea in good visibility conditions . On the summit is a granite pillar of the Danish degree measurement , which was carried out around 1838.
In winter, when the snow conditions allow, there is Schleswig-Holstein's only and thus Germany's northernmost winter sports area on the Bungsberg with a drag lift installed especially for the few days with snow cover . A descent on one of the three slopes takes around 25 seconds and the lift time around 90 seconds. One slope is for tobogganers, two for skiers or snowboarders. The 300 m long downhill slopes have a gradient of around 17 degrees. In the 2009/2010 season, up to several hundred winter sports enthusiasts were counted daily, arriving from Lübeck, Hamburg or Kiel, among others. In theory, the 250 m long steel cable lift with its 34 galvanized tow bars can carry up to 600 people per hour to the summit. It was purchased in the 1970/1971 season by the municipality of Schönwalde am Bungsberg in order to stimulate tourism. Due to the weather, the lift only ran for one week in the 2008/2009 season and not at all in 2007/2008. In the 2009/2010 season, which was the longest in the history of the lift, the lift ran for 54 days. Around 2000 an event company even operated a snowmaking system.
In April 2007, the facilities on the Bungsberg made a neglected impression for excursionists. The inn was largely demolished and completely fenced in. Since 2013, the Zweckverband Bungsberg and the Sparkassen-Stiftung Ostholstein have been campaigning for an increase in the attractiveness of the Bungsberg as a destination for families and as an extracurricular learning location as part of the “Bildungsspaß Ostholstein” project. The “Bungsberg Experience” learning location is intended to make the history of the elevation since the Ice Ages and life in the respective epochs tangible.
In February 2015, the newly built "Waldschänke" was opened again as a gastronomic business, which has been closed since January 2019 due to bankruptcy. Instead, the operation is to be reopened in November 2019 with new tenants under the name "168 Ü.NN".
Web links
- Bungsberg experience A place of experience and learning for children
- Bungsberg telecommunications tower. In: Structurae
- Old NDR broadcasting mast Bungsberg. In: Structurae
- New NDR transmitter mast in Bungsberg. In: Structurae
- Panorama photo from the observation platform of the telecommunications tower with good visibility (labeling of visual targets can be activated), on panorama-photo.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Signpost (height indication: 168 m)
- ↑ Brigitte Schwenzer [collaboration: Fritz Treichel]: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 11/24 Eutin / Westermarkelsdorf. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1974. → Online map (PDF; 5.2 MB)
- ↑ a b Distance using the Measure distance function on Google Maps ( satellite image)
- ↑ Germany's northernmost ski lift - Twenty seconds in the snow , from December 4, 2008, on spiegel.de
- ↑ Helge Sobik: Sea-snow, please! ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), January 21, 2007, from sonntag-aktuell.de, on archive.org (PDF; 141.8 kB)
- ↑ Holger Karkheck: Where the mountain calls in Low German , in: Bild am Sonntag , January 10, 2010
- ↑ bu: Waldschänke on the Bungsberg starts with free beer and grilled sausage | shz.de. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Achim Krauskopf: Waldschänke: Insolvency administrator takes over. shz.de from January 21, 2019, accessed on August 28, 2019
- ↑ Marc Dobkowitz: “168 above sea level” in Schönwalde: You won't eat higher anywhere in SH: A restaurant will soon open again on the Bungsberg | shz.de. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .